A planned trip from London to China takes a detour to the Nurburgring Nordschliefe for a 'fast' lap of the infamous Green Hell racing circuit. A Week In Trucks - In association with Daf Trucks
For the true LDV Pilot experience, you should have stopped halfway round the track and set up camp in everyone's way, then bugger off to nick some copper wiring.
If you're going overland to Russia, you don't go through Belarus. Most truckers turn north at Warsaw and drive through Lithuania and Latvia and crossing the border straight into Russia, to avoid the bureaucrats and taxes, despite the much better quality roads and shorter distance on the Belarus route. I drove a Pilot in the early 2000s when they were almost new. I was kind of excited to drive one as it was being marketed as a British phoenix rising from the ashes, but it was mediocre. I was using it to take special needs kids to school. I don't think it was taking it round the Nurburgring that knackered your Pilot though; it probably was before you got it.
OK so yes there may have been a little BS here but has nobody heard of the Mongol Rally a rally for crappy cars form London to Mongolia and many LDV vans have completed this so this is not as crazy as it seems .. infact looking at video list to the right there is a video of an LDV doing exactly that
p24hrsmith any vehicle can make it. After all these were made to drive many miles a year. A leaking radiator wouldn’t stop you from getting there though. Rad weld is sold at every garage! Eggs etc if they really wanted to do it they would have done. Prob only had the weekend
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.
Yeah, im pretty sure if your driving to Russia, you wouldnt go through belarus, youd turn north in poland and then turn to go through lithuania to avoid taxes. Just saying
What a load of bullshit. Doesn't matter what you buy at that age LDV van or Mercedes car etc if it has not been looked after it will not manage to do a long drive like that. I wouldn't have left my town in a van where it is obvious it has been neglected and needs lots of work down to it. We used to have a 1978 Leyland Sherpa that used to travel from Paisley, Scotland to all of the new Dodge City DIY branches all over the country that was very reliable although the diesel engine like most was very noisy back then so this LDV van having a Peugeot engine should have been no problem as well if it had been serviced and all of the problems like the exhaust sorted before setting out. These were built and sold as cheap vans at the time and there is plenty of people running them now as camper vans etc and do actually look after them.
